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Entries from May 2004

13 reasons why Cluetrain made me cry

May 10th, 2004 · 2 Comments

On my flight to Boston last month, I took with me a copy of The Cluetrain Manifesto written by Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, Doc Searls, and Rick Levine Copyright © 1999, 2001. From the first chapter, I found myself captured, underlining sentences and dogearing pages. Here are my favorite 13 quotes/themes from the book. 1. […]

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P.S. – postscripts to yesterday’s posts

May 10th, 2004 · 4 Comments

Anita Rowland posted some links describing “the intersection of real brain science and fantasy in the movie Eternal Sunshine“. I wonder how this storage(erasure?!) of emotional memories in the brain fits with some of the studies I linked in Pain: it’s in the brain. Related to the piece I wrote on our mammalian nature: women, […]

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Even a child can do it: Mother’s Day portrait

May 10th, 2004 · 1 Comment

The white irises are blooming and I wanted to see if I could get a picture of myself with them. Ted was busy barbecuing so I asked Abigail if she could try. And she did! Even a child can use a digital camera….here’s her Mother’s Day portrait of me.

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Tags: motherhood

Counting my blessings…and all my mothers

May 10th, 2004 · 1 Comment

I’ve caught a cold and yesterday I was feeling lousy. I felt like a lousy mom. I didn’t have the interactive energy I needed for the girls, and they were bouncing about like popcorn, perhaps in some subconscious effort to get more attention from me, to squeeze from the rock of my sinus-heavy head some […]

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Carry me Mommy

May 9th, 2004 · Comments Off on Carry me Mommy

thoughts to my mom today I think of how you carried me first inside you then outside in a corduroy Snugli strapped to your chest you walked around Boston while my father worked you showed me the sights the cemeteries and churches the past and the present you wanted me to see the world I […]

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Tags: motherhood